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can u.s. representative say the internet needs to be to remain free from government control and sound hypocritical to you that story still ahead. thanks x. . six. and now to a story where always on top of and that is the role revolving door between legislators and lobbyist probably because the hits just keep on coming we've been collecting files on the people who make a living hopping back and forth between the public and private sector now these people earn connections and power in the public sector which they can leverage into higher salaries in the private sector of course it's a win win for them to go back and forth but who loses out all the regular people whose interests are put on the back burner in favor of big business well who's the latest deserving of a mention a woman by the name of elizabeth fowler now lives has been going back and forth between the public and private sector her entire career specializing in the health care industry she hit the big time as a top health care aide to
can u.s. representative say the internet needs to be to remain free from government control and sound hypocritical to you that story still ahead. thanks x. . six. and now to a story where always on top of and that is the role revolving door between legislators and lobbyist probably because the hits just keep on coming we've been collecting files on the people who make a living hopping back and forth between the public and private sector now these people earn connections and power in the public...
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u.s. congress says that despite the opposition's determination to make that morsi back down he has a strong chance of keeping the new policy he's handed himself. the country is clearly split but mr morsi is strong because he has many institutions under his control the parliament the presidency the upper layer of the army now has replaced many officers in his calculations on december the fifteenth he will win because the most organized force now in egypt at least for the next few months is the muslim brotherhood and their allies the salafist they've gotten a majority in the parliament with allies of course they've got the president elected with allies and now some of his allies have abandoned him but they don't have the strength to organize and reach out to citizens the way the muslim brotherhood have so this looks like a recipe for a long. civil uprising against the government i am not sure that this is going to go immediately into what people think could be a civil war on less acts of vio
u.s. congress says that despite the opposition's determination to make that morsi back down he has a strong chance of keeping the new policy he's handed himself. the country is clearly split but mr morsi is strong because he has many institutions under his control the parliament the presidency the upper layer of the army now has replaced many officers in his calculations on december the fifteenth he will win because the most organized force now in egypt at least for the next few months is the...
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u.s. invasion fleet poised on syria's borders. around one step forward one step by just as the american senate's launches a cold war era long live it break it up or is it these are by no seven russian officials provoking a promise of a similar move. this is all she coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program along anticipated state address by egypt's president morsi has failed to silence the angry voices on the streets of cairo protesters claim his still ignores their key demands by evolving to push on with a referendum on an islamist led constitution more on that from cairo based reporter true now. president mohamed morsi basically stuck by his decisions he said in his speech he said this consulate curation which was very contentious very people described it as a power grab was essential basically in the transition period to democracy and very important protecting the constituent assembly which drafted the constitution to the we get to this point we're going to have a refe
u.s. invasion fleet poised on syria's borders. around one step forward one step by just as the american senate's launches a cold war era long live it break it up or is it these are by no seven russian officials provoking a promise of a similar move. this is all she coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program along anticipated state address by egypt's president morsi has failed to silence the angry voices on the streets of cairo protesters claim his still ignores their key...
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u.s. want permission to store all of your text messages for a two year period is this just another sign of big brother going too far. as congress and the president viktor over the upcoming fiscal cliff many inside the beltway say a path to the stable u.s. economic future can be found in the simpson bowles plan coming up five things you should know that's included in this plan. it's friday december seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. well we've been today in syria where fears of chemical weapons have resulted in one american official after another declaring a red line against the country president obama hillary clinton leon panetta and a host of other american officials have threatened action if chemical weapons are used in the country but behind the curtain of rhetoric are real doubts of what weapon syria actually has and whether the u.s. is really willing to get involved in yet another conflict in the middle east r t international correspondent dia
u.s. want permission to store all of your text messages for a two year period is this just another sign of big brother going too far. as congress and the president viktor over the upcoming fiscal cliff many inside the beltway say a path to the stable u.s. economic future can be found in the simpson bowles plan coming up five things you should know that's included in this plan. it's friday december seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. well we've been today...
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in thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders as a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not according to a detective turks the turks of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato and intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering th
in thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders as a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the...
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u.s. is concerned rebel breakthroughs could force the government into a chemical attack something the white house says would trigger foreign intervention washington reportedly please president assad is preparing to use chemical weapons and started college can reports allegations could be all it takes. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready t
u.s. is concerned rebel breakthroughs could force the government into a chemical attack something the white house says would trigger foreign intervention washington reportedly please president assad is preparing to use chemical weapons and started college can reports allegations could be all it takes. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the...
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all are specially the u.s. wants to have a beachhead in the back is done in terms of controlling central asia oil and gas resources and that's another story as well we should talk about resources if we don't change this model which is the french. you know it's waste it's a waste model basically. fossil fuels this thing is going to explode with the middle class middle class and inside the capital the western capitalist system within the next few years is not even decades. in fact when we have this what's happening in greece spain. portugal when this single hits the norse in european countries any it will inevitably maybe north german maybe not germany because germany has a very sound economy they have their export malled all they're doing is strategic alliances with russia in terms of oil and gas they are sustainable but the rest of europe with exception of germany and scandinavia is not then we're going to have sort of he. was three movement inside western europe as well and this is going to happen within the n
all are specially the u.s. wants to have a beachhead in the back is done in terms of controlling central asia oil and gas resources and that's another story as well we should talk about resources if we don't change this model which is the french. you know it's waste it's a waste model basically. fossil fuels this thing is going to explode with the middle class middle class and inside the capital the western capitalist system within the next few years is not even decades. in fact when we have...
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u.s. invasion fetus is poised on syria's border. plus one step forward one step back and just as the americans senator slashes of cold war era nor limiting trade it approves a visa ban on surging russian officials provoking promise of a similar move from moscow. you know what you must go live for you know what you are to live for moscow rather with me to bomb would say we start off in egypt where the long and dissipated state address by egypt's president morsi has failed to silence the angry voices on the streets of cairo apologises claim he's still ignored big key demands by volume to push on with the reverend i'm on an islamist led constitution on that from cairo based reporter. president mohamed morsi basically stuck by his decisions he said in his speech he said this consulate curation which was very contentious very people described it as a power grab was essential basically in the transition period to democracy and very important protecting the constituent assembly which drafted the
u.s. invasion fetus is poised on syria's border. plus one step forward one step back and just as the americans senator slashes of cold war era nor limiting trade it approves a visa ban on surging russian officials provoking promise of a similar move from moscow. you know what you must go live for you know what you are to live for moscow rather with me to bomb would say we start off in egypt where the long and dissipated state address by egypt's president morsi has failed to silence the angry...
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absolutely but when it comes to the u.s. is economic problems does this tax debate or even this fiscal cliff debate begin to scratch the surface of the crisis all former republican strategist author and historian kevin phillips is here with lessons we can learn from seventeen seventy five the subject of his latest book that many a politician may benefit from actually reading. from a long time involved church i don't do it anymore of those boys much so you do not read because for people. to go and the as these the is reportedly investigating going to be providing twelve million dollars in derivatives trading losses in two thousand and eight yeah yeah there's a list of alleged bad bank behavior how is good capitalism though being driven out by bad capitalism all will break it down and word of the day plus alan greenspan says a painless solution to the u.s. debt is a fantasy finally something we can agree on more loose change let's get to today's capital account. our guest kevin phillips made a name for himself in the late one
absolutely but when it comes to the u.s. is economic problems does this tax debate or even this fiscal cliff debate begin to scratch the surface of the crisis all former republican strategist author and historian kevin phillips is here with lessons we can learn from seventeen seventy five the subject of his latest book that many a politician may benefit from actually reading. from a long time involved church i don't do it anymore of those boys much so you do not read because for people. to go...
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u.s. is in part to blame for afghanistan's instability check it out. it's. sort of number of years ago it goes perception of kind of stuff. that. it's a significant part of it's accused of in afghanistan it's called sed by do we. know that states and some of its allies. promoted to the smiths not going to start. stripping corruption in afghanistan by. employing private security firms who became involved are all and. so having private mercenaries running around and cloak of impunity has people in afghanistan pissed off can't say i'm not shocked at that but that's not all because when the reporter probed even further cars i had this to say. very strong perception that the some of the skills to use the term stimulus wow president karzai himself is saying that afghans believe their insecurity is intentionally brought on by nato and the u.s. and you know what makes sense especially when i think of incidents such as the marines were found you're needed on the corpses of taliban fighters or the s
u.s. is in part to blame for afghanistan's instability check it out. it's. sort of number of years ago it goes perception of kind of stuff. that. it's a significant part of it's accused of in afghanistan it's called sed by do we. know that states and some of its allies. promoted to the smiths not going to start. stripping corruption in afghanistan by. employing private security firms who became involved are all and. so having private mercenaries running around and cloak of impunity has people...
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so much money in sixty four so much extra money so much more money than they needed to pay for the u.s. as you see that l.b.j. said. let's just do away with that with you know i get a little encouragement from wall street no doubt and now it's gone but a bunch of other countries around the around the world are doing it and we need to be doing it too so it's been called the robin hood tax it's been called the wall street tax whatever we need to do steve in spokane washington hey steve what's on your mind tonight hi just how are you doing for well just just about here in about detroit and. were issues. prior to reagan there was the state federal worker program workouts to risk. him. to cancel employees to to get jobs once he was elected he he to. funding away from those programs. and you're absolutely right stephen i appreciate pointed out in fact that was just one little piece of it ronald reagan was the first president in the history of the united states to appoint as director of the labor department a man who was hostile to labor and he set a precedent for every republican administrat
so much money in sixty four so much extra money so much more money than they needed to pay for the u.s. as you see that l.b.j. said. let's just do away with that with you know i get a little encouragement from wall street no doubt and now it's gone but a bunch of other countries around the around the world are doing it and we need to be doing it too so it's been called the robin hood tax it's been called the wall street tax whatever we need to do steve in spokane washington hey steve what's on...
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and shows you the number of licenses the u.s. military has to fly drones in the u.s. air space the records obtained by the e.s.f. also reveal that the air force has been testing a whole host of new drones like the eight which can be launched from and land on practically any environment at a fraction of the size of the larger deadlier drones that have been used in countless targeted assassination campaigns overseas then there's the scan eagle developed by insitu these puppies host a camera turret that can track moving targets for extended periods of time even if the drone is moving away from the target while there are countless other drone projects in the works i do want to mention what is possibly the creepiest of them all a darpa reaper that uses gorgon stair technology which is the find is a spherical ray of nine cameras mounted on a single area drone capable of capturing motion imagery on an entire city landscape so guys what this little drone update should tell you is that if you didn't think that you could fall victim to the surveillance state the wrong you're al
and shows you the number of licenses the u.s. military has to fly drones in the u.s. air space the records obtained by the e.s.f. also reveal that the air force has been testing a whole host of new drones like the eight which can be launched from and land on practically any environment at a fraction of the size of the larger deadlier drones that have been used in countless targeted assassination campaigns overseas then there's the scan eagle developed by insitu these puppies host a camera...
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be careful what you tax police departments here in the u.s. want permission to store all of your text messages for a two year period is this just another sign of big brother going too far. and sex sells that's the old saying so how is the world's oldest living profession making out in the recession we'll speak to the owner of the infamous bunny ranch and see how his business is faring during this economic slowdown. it's friday december seventh five him in washington d.c. i'm going lopez and you're watching our t.v. . all right well we begin tonight in egypt where demonstrations against the newly elected president mohamed morsi have continued to grow the unrest in egypt is now well into its third week and if you think you're seeing deja vu what the protests playing out in tough we're square you're correct once again the demonstrations are becoming very violent very quickly as many as six people were killed in last night's clashes alone now all of this is over the near absolute power president morsi claimed last month while drafting a new consti
be careful what you tax police departments here in the u.s. want permission to store all of your text messages for a two year period is this just another sign of big brother going too far. and sex sells that's the old saying so how is the world's oldest living profession making out in the recession we'll speak to the owner of the infamous bunny ranch and see how his business is faring during this economic slowdown. it's friday december seventh five him in washington d.c. i'm going lopez and...
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so between the u.s. and mexico it's unclear whether this favorable treatment will be genuine or extended would be a very damaging evidence and against the government the lines that there is a drug war being fought and then back there's probably something very different going on indeed indeed yes the media narrative is quite different from from the truth on the ground thank you so much for coming on breaking it down and explain a little bit about what's happening right there from mexico city investigative journalist andrew kindness my pleasure. well you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel you tube dot com plus breaking news that entrance crime to us is there check out our facebook page at facebook dot com plus breaking than that and if you're wondering about what i'm doing when i'm not on the air follow me on twitter at abby martin i took a break from my preaching for now it's a turn to hear if the u.s. is set to launch itself off the fiscal cliff next. you know sometimes you see a story an
so between the u.s. and mexico it's unclear whether this favorable treatment will be genuine or extended would be a very damaging evidence and against the government the lines that there is a drug war being fought and then back there's probably something very different going on indeed indeed yes the media narrative is quite different from from the truth on the ground thank you so much for coming on breaking it down and explain a little bit about what's happening right there from mexico city...
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these are your headlines for friday december seventh two thousand well it's jobs day u.s. jobs numbers for november came in better than expected with the b.l.s. report showing one hundred forty six thousand jobs were added much more than expected and the unemployment rate fell to seven point seven percent but why did the rate went down because more people left the labor force and when you look at the lack of exciting increases in wages that also comes out in this report what should we really make of it all and what does it portend for housing which our guest barry habib mortgage exact thinks has been a bright spot for the economy we'll hear from them plus brace yourself the f one c meets next week and some are forecasting the fed may announce more bond purchases after they do so so what is the antidote to unhinge money printing and centrally planned price fixing could gold play a role john butler is here to counter some claims we heard on this show earlier in the week and our trip down memory lane with author kevin phillips on his account of seven hundred seventy five lead
these are your headlines for friday december seventh two thousand well it's jobs day u.s. jobs numbers for november came in better than expected with the b.l.s. report showing one hundred forty six thousand jobs were added much more than expected and the unemployment rate fell to seven point seven percent but why did the rate went down because more people left the labor force and when you look at the lack of exciting increases in wages that also comes out in this report what should we really...
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former u.s. assistant secretary of defense also former years and messenger to saudi arabia it's great to have you with us here today it's a privilege all right so operation pillar of cloud that israel has carried out in gaza is over now both israel and hamas are claiming victory could do you think is doing or i don't think israel is the winner except in one sense and that is it demonstrated that the iron dome missile defense system will work otherwise in the arena of public opinion internationally in the region it lost heavily. nobody likes to see advanced military aircraft bombing civilian populations which is what was happening. and of course this energized egypt diplomatically in a new way and it generated a lot of support for the palestinians in gaza. despite the fact that many of the governments that came to visit sent their foreign ministers or to gaza for example don't i come i said all in fact they fear it so it clearly strengthened the. how matz both in the palestinian territories and in
former u.s. assistant secretary of defense also former years and messenger to saudi arabia it's great to have you with us here today it's a privilege all right so operation pillar of cloud that israel has carried out in gaza is over now both israel and hamas are claiming victory could do you think is doing or i don't think israel is the winner except in one sense and that is it demonstrated that the iron dome missile defense system will work otherwise in the arena of public opinion...
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now i do want to tell you i'm sorry to disappoint you but in two thousand and six the u.s. mint did pass a rule that banned melting coins due to rising metal prices and it's illegal to transport more than five hundred pennies out of the country as well try getting those thirty s a anyway but in two thousand and seven the mint issued a press release stating why there is concern they said that speculators could remove pennies and nickels from circulation and sell them as scrap for profit so there you have it in action but here is an older example of gresham's law in the seventy's an eighteenth century great britain was on a silver standard but when the master of the man sir isaac newton there is a fine looking fellow he established a new meant ratio of silver to gold which overvalued gold and undervalued silver and you can imagine what happened as i explained what happens under this law this is over began to disappear and gold flowed into the country now gresham's law can be applied not just to money but to more than that to perhaps politics and forms of capitalism as well wh
now i do want to tell you i'm sorry to disappoint you but in two thousand and six the u.s. mint did pass a rule that banned melting coins due to rising metal prices and it's illegal to transport more than five hundred pennies out of the country as well try getting those thirty s a anyway but in two thousand and seven the mint issued a press release stating why there is concern they said that speculators could remove pennies and nickels from circulation and sell them as scrap for profit so there...
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cut success untaught success story you expect do you expect google amazon other u.s. multinationals to follow suit or even to broaden this campaign yeah i think the issue here is clearly we're glad that there were going movement we're getting traction and there's signs that people are starting to wake up to the problem even those people like osborne and alexander who before bury their heads in the sand but the question here is not that is important you know starbucks google and amazon. enter negotiations but it's not up to them to change the law they. you know because going up massively more but the government should be taken stronger action to stop it in the future and have new legislation have new laws to say right this is tax avoidance if it looks like tax avoidance and it smells like tax avoidance is tax avoidance we can have a broad principle that rules out the why is what the companies one they want this thing called a regulation which is just another way where they can hire expensive accountants to get around the law and then siphon their money had their ended
cut success untaught success story you expect do you expect google amazon other u.s. multinationals to follow suit or even to broaden this campaign yeah i think the issue here is clearly we're glad that there were going movement we're getting traction and there's signs that people are starting to wake up to the problem even those people like osborne and alexander who before bury their heads in the sand but the question here is not that is important you know starbucks google and amazon. enter...
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of the markets the u.s. markets are mixed with the dow inspired by the latest unemployment figures jobless rate fell again seven point seven percent tech shares however on drag european markets and the session mixed to london was up slightly led by russia's polymath so up two percent on the higher called and russia managed a positive and to the. weak with the very point three percent however gas probably shares continue to decline on friday as a consortium of vicious stream pipeline finally started the project brings together europe's biggest energy giants to pump gas directly to the continent but comes with a big price tag of more than twenty billion dollars but in the course reports from the official launch of. the groundbreaking ceremony was attended by president putin and the hands of leading era p. an energy companies involved in the project now this pipeline plans to transport russian natural gas to central and south in europe diversifying gas routes away from transit countries in particular ukraine an
of the markets the u.s. markets are mixed with the dow inspired by the latest unemployment figures jobless rate fell again seven point seven percent tech shares however on drag european markets and the session mixed to london was up slightly led by russia's polymath so up two percent on the higher called and russia managed a positive and to the. weak with the very point three percent however gas probably shares continue to decline on friday as a consortium of vicious stream pipeline finally...